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Quantum entanglement and Extra Sensory Perception
The problem with Quantum Entanglement is that it doesn't seem to work. The odds of two particles becoming entangled the physicist's way (i.e., one photon hitting both particles at once) are so small as to be effectively nonexistent, and we certainly haven't seen any evidence for that kind of entanglement in real life experiments.
In addition there is a problem of interpretation. The physicist's way of looking at the world does not cover all possibilities, and it certainly doesn't predict what observers see in real life. It predicts only that if you measure something like spin along one axis, then measuring something else will tell you about that first measurement - but this leaves open exactly how the second measurement tells you about the first.
That means that the laws of physics don't tell you how to interpret the results. They are not self-interpreting in this way.
The physicist's way doesn't tell you what to think if you get a result that is usually taken as evidence for entanglement. The most common experimental observation in quantum entanglement experiments is 'Bell nonlocality', also called the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox or EPR paradox.
So the physicist's way doesn't predict what observers see in entanglement experiments. In fact, it can make predictions that are completely different from those of human observers.
How do we resolve this paradox? The physicist's way has to be amended. It must be corrected so that it covers all of the possibilities, not just some.